Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 29: Crime Branch (CB) Jammu has registered a criminal case against alleged cheats Ajay Bali of Roop Nagar and Rajinder Singh of Sangaldan, Ramban along with others for criminal conspiracy to dupe one Prithvi Singh of Sari, Ramban.
A handout of CB stated that Prithvi Singh had complained CB that he purchased two kanal land at Kalu Chak against ‘the agreement to sell’ dated June 2, 2017 executed by Ajay Bali and Rajinder Singh for Rs. 3, 40,000 which was paid in cash and through cheques also but no physical possession of the land was given to him as the land was already mortgaged with a bank.
As one kanal of the land stood in the name of Sahil Shaik of Srinagar, Ajay Bali and Rajinder Singh asked Prithvi to transfer money by cheques in the account of Shaik and Jyoti Devi wife of Sham-partners of the accused besides Rs. 5 lakh by cash.
In another complaint Sagar Singh, brother of Prithvi alleged that he purchased land against the ‘agreement to sell’ executed by Ajay Bali for land measuring 10 marla at Kote Balwal and he gave Rs. 7.09 lakh in total to Bali and his partners for purchase of the land but no physical possession of land was given to him.
During preliminary verification CB Jammu came to know that the accused cheats collected money from the complainants through fraudulent means on pretext of selling land to them and duped the complainants of their hard earned money amounting to Rs. 80 lakh.
Accordingly, a case was registered at Police Station CB Jammu in this regard and investigations were started.